Austin, TX, USA
Cigar-Shaped hovering craft spotted near I-35 and 290 exit north of Austin
Report quality: Moderate69/100
This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.
- Duration parsed: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (74 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 3 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-10-01
- Where
- Austin, TX, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 30.267, -97.743 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-austin-tx-2020-c7cdbf
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…
Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 4 Austin, TX reports filed in October 2020.
In context
- Austin, TX shows up 327 times across the archive.
- 299 reports came from Texas in 2020.
- In the 2020s, 2.6% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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